[Blackpool] Hello

[Les Pounder]

Hi Arthur, nice to meet you.

I'm Les from Blackpool and I enjoy tinkering with Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
Your projects sound very interesting and I'd be interested to learn more.
Robotics is a very rewarding experience and I'm sure there would be a few
interested parties at the Makerspace.

Hope you can make our meeting on the 16th?

Thanks
Les


On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Arthur Garlick <arthur_garlick at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
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> I am Arthur from St Annes.
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> I have been messing with Pic microcontrollers off and on for many years
> and just got back into it spurred on by some interest from my sons (and
> hoping to grab their interest more).
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> The current thing I am playing with is a 3 axis magnetometer/compass chip
> and I2C with a view to having model boats that know what direction they are
> pointing in and can derive what direction the turrets are pointed in and
> turn/track targets when the boat changes direction using some small stepper
> motors.  The control will hopefully be by messaging via 2.4Ghz so I send
> messages equivalent to 'all ahead one third' and 'steer course 240 degrees'
>  rather than moving an analog stick on a transmitter and there be an
> immediate response.  The boats I am looking at are 350th scale dreadnought
> period, so realistically you shouldn't have immediate and precise control
> and not much room in the hulls at that scale.
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> The last thing I built with my son was a useless machine with two servos
> driven by a Pic 12F675.
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> I visited Manchester Mini Maker Faire recently and it's inspired me to
> look at a biped robot.  Although the model boat is the main project I am
> working towards, I think dabbling around with a biped robot would be a
> great long term side project.  When I went to Maker Faire I met and had a
> great chat with David Buckley and loved his Thor robot:
> http://davidbuckley.net/DB/Thor/ThorLog.htm It seemed to me that if I
> went down to Madlab Manchester one Saturday I might well get the pieces for
> Thor on their laser cutter, David wanted some Android development doing,
> which if I understood him properly I could probably deliver, and he is very
> knowledgeable with walking robots.  Or if anyone in this group would do a
> robot I'd jump in with them, I am a Pic guy but I'd try Arduino.
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> Anyway, that's me introducing myself.
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> regards
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> Arthur
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